Suspended for Otter Nonsense

[SaberMaxwell]

Ain't saying the OP of that thread was in the right, but derailing the topic, and then sending a wave of otter pictures isn't exactly a good thing to do either.

A simple intervention post on the mods' end, or, in the name of Hydaelyn, locking the thread op himself derailed, would have been a better choice than waiting and tossing bans out to nearly everyone involved.

[AnnaRosa]

Yes I agree, the OP of that thread should have spoken to his former FC mates instead of trying to bait them with a post on the forums.

Don't know it is a personal matter perhaps the player tried to talk about the subject before and didn't work out the way the player expected can't make such assumption.
The only thing I know so far is that at some point the player felt the need to express discontent and for the 1st answers from the OP there were inside the thread we could see it was something upsetting we shouldn't had pushed the thread so far, it was our fault too.

[SaberMaxwell]

Don't know it is a personal matter perhaps the player tried to talk about the subject before and didn't work out the way the player expected can't make such assumption.
The only thing I know so far is that at some point the player felt the need to express discontent and for the 1st answers from the OP there were inside the thread we could see it was something upsetting we shouldn't had pushed the thread so far, it was our fault too.

Remember the post. He did not try to talk anything out; he saw the joke, left fc, changed data center, and then posted on the of to bait his static.

[JunkhogMakison]

Forum threads are fickle beasts. 9/10 there hardly ever on point most of the time. You may get 1 maybe 2 people who genuanly engage in the discussion but most of the time it's just frontlines of DPS only.

[Alucard135]

Ottergater here, second suspension since joining.

I find it very amusing that they would ban posters over otters, but have the person looking to stir the crap pot by trying to antagonize and name/shame former FC-mates get off free. Rules seem very arbitrary here and I say that respectfully, lest they ban me for a third and final time like a great number of people on r/ffxiv.

He was banned lol.

The thread was derailed into people just posting otter pics. If you joined in you were kind of asking for it.

I was expecting that. But I wasn't gonna let my chance of being part of #Ottergate slip by!! We turned a cancerous thread into something otterly amazing!

[Joven]

It's complex so in regards of the previous thread maybe the best solution is to take it out of the forums and solve it in real life because the way you should be using the forums would be to approach a more game related topics, instead of personal vendettas. Blergghh
The moderators and SE have nothing to do with anyone "Hero jokes" about the topic previously mentioned by Soul.

So quit trying to involve SE and forums community managers into your personal vendettas grow courage and solve it irl.

Anything started on the forums should be settled on the forums. We're discussing forum moderation and transparency not personal grudges. Even if we were discussing personal grudges nobody should be taking that outside of the forums. Even remotely suggesting that people should find other's information so they can 'solve it IRL' is wrong in every way.

[ScarboroughFairy]

He was banned lol.

Oh? I stand corrected, then. That was someone who needed it. Not those of us who tried to extinguish the trashfire with adorable pictures.

[SerLuke]

Don't know it is a personal matter perhaps the player tried to talk about the subject before and didn't work out the way the player expected can't make such assumption.
The only thing I know so far is that at some point the player felt the need to express discontent and for the 1st answers from the OP there were inside the thread we could see it was something upsetting we shouldn't had pushed the thread so far, it was our fault too.

Anna, you literally went from “It's complex so in regards of the previous thread maybe the best solution is to take it out of the forums and solve it in real life because the way you should be using the forums would be to approach a more game related topics”

To: “The only thing I know so far is that at some point the player felt the need to express discontent and for the 1st answers from the OP there were inside the thread we could see it was something upsetting ”

When I addressed the actions of the OP that started all this, Why the contradiction here? If taking care of maters outside the forums applies to us, shouldn’t it also apply to them?

[NorthernLadMSP]

Some people are toxic on purpose and try to get a rise out of people. Many of those same people are probably the first to report someone who responds back in kind.

Quoted for truth. This happened to me about a half a year ago regarding a thread where people were actively bragging about abusing the mentor system and abusing new players for the purpose of getting their mentor mount faster.

[Jwrigh7784]

I didn't get suspended but my account basically got a strike against it for creating a thread to brag about our children and the cute and smart things they do. It was created in general discussion which I assumed meant we could talk about anything in general as long as it wasn't inappropriate. I received an e-mail detailing what action was taken against my account. I was told it was against the TOS. How could an innocent thread bragging about the things our children do be against the TOS? How asinine is that? They even removed my thread. I was baffled.